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Julie Laing
Author Bio
Julie Laing is a writer and artist from Glasgow. Her debut pamphlet, 'the edge of rhizome', was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2025. She won the 2023 William Bonar Poetry Prize, the Wigtown Poetry Prize 2022 and her poem, 'livestream, hope street', was selected as one of Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems 2022. Other work has been published in Magma, New Writing Scotland, Gutter magazine and elsewhere. She was mentored through the St Mungo Mirrorball’s Clydebuilt 13 verse apprenticeship scheme and co-hosts off-page visual poetry programme with CD Boyland and Leo Plumb.
Synopsis
The poems in 'some possible endings & beginnings' explore desire for connection across physical and imperceptible boundaries. They are negotiations between this striving to know, and the constraints imposed on that by time, memory, distances and other people. They encompass birth, war, nights out, the news and many other everyday experiences.
Across this inventively visual collection, existence is a non-linear journey shaped by interconnecting origins and conclusions. Along the way, words and graphics form an expansive topography where black holes are as much part of the landscape as city streets. Waymarkers such as arrows, lines and colours point towards both directional and psychological routes.
The multiple voices in these poems are sometimes internal, sometimes in conversation, but all share a drive to question ways of being. Uncertainty inhabits these pages, but here, that is a freedom as much as a weight.
